Seamless hosiery.



PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

G. H. GILBERT. BAMLESS HOSIERY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1901.

. plain knittingll. llllilll lll'l, ()F lilfilihlilN'ltl il'N, PFNNSYLVAINlA, ASSlUNOR TO 7 THE KJLBOLTRN liNl'l'llNll MAUHINE COMPANY, OF NEW BRUNSWHJK,

N E Vi JERSEY.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

SEAMLESS HOSlEl-YY.

Patented May 29, 1906.

llpplimatinn filed June 7,1901. Serial No. 63,622.

To (All wit m1 it 77'l/(I/j/ concern:

Be it known that l, Gnonon ll. GILBERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ger muntmi'n, in the county oi Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedccrtain new and useful improvements in Seamless l losiery; and I do hereby declare the following to be afilt'ull, clear, and exact description oi the invention,such as will enable others skilled in. the art to which it appcrtains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to machine-made seamless hosiery, and has for its object the production of a stocking having improved ornamental effects. A

Hitherto manufacturers of ornamental seamless hose or stockings have been able to make the ornamental open-worl or lacework on the front oi" the stocking only, and such ornamental. lace or open Work began at the top oi. the stocking and continued down over the ankle and front of the foot to the toe portion. I am, 'however,'able to produce an article'of this class haying a ortion of at the top of the leg of the stocking, the g composed of sections of. lace work alternating with sections of plain knitting around the entire leg the heel and botlom of the foot and. toe being made of plain knitting, while the open-work sections are continued over the ankle and foot with a portion of plaiinknitted fabric interposed between the lower end of such open or lace work sections and the toe.

In the drawing I have shown a stocking embodying my invention, the same being partially in perspective to show the ornalmental section extending entirely around the jIn such drawing, A is the leg portion of the stocking, and B the foot portion. At the top of the leg portion is a plain-knitted portion a. Commencing at the point :1: an the leg of thestocking is formed of lain-knitted portions c,united by open-wor or lace sections 0, the one alternating with the other entirely around the leg. The loops of the several courses forming one figure of the lace or open work are made as follows:

Starting at the plain section. Z, the thread forms a straight cross-thread e to the next plain section, crossii'ig the space of one or more )lain loops. A given number of lain loops is then made. The thread then ma cs a further cross-thread to the next sectioi'i of plain knitting, and so on entirely around the leg of the stocking. On the next round the crossthread e is made in like manner. On the third round the cross-threai'l e is made in. the same manner. On the fourth round the crossthread is drawn down over the three cross-threads e e 2 formin the elongated loop (2, as is well understood in. the knitting of tuck fabrics. This is continued to the point marked 1;, where the heel is knitted of plain loops. After the formation of the heel the knitting is continued,forming the bot: tom of plain loops and the top'oi the crue mental courses and plain sections, as hereinbe'lore set forth, until the point :r, is reached, at which points number oi plain knitted courses ore formed entirely around the S'tUPlKJ',

The toe isthcn completed with plain mg. loops, thus forming a stocking which has the plaiinlmitted portion a, the leg of ornamental sections a, the heel b of )lilln loops, the bottom of the foot oi plain rnitting b, and,

the sections l) of plain knitting interposed between the ornamental courses and the too if of the stocking. This stocking may be made of one continuous thread, or it may he made'by knittin the heel and too of one thread and the remaining portions of the stocking from another thread, or it may be made by forming the heel andtoe of one thread and the other portions of the stocking'knitted from. two, three, or four other threads, as the manufacturer may prefer. The stocking may be knitted upon a ma chine constructed in the well-known mannerto roduce tuck-lmitting, provision hcin ma for causing the needles of the front an. 1

back portions of the stocking to be thrown. separately into operation to knit tuck or plain knitting as deslred.

' While I have described the ornamental effect as produced by employing in the orna-'-" stocking the appearance of being formed entirely ol lacework, or this effect may be employed solely on the front of the stocking.

It will be understood that, if preferred, the lacework may begin with the top of the stocking and be continued to the toe; but this is not my preferred construction.

In the description herein given of the stocking embodying my improvements it-is assumed that. the stocking is knit beginning at the top of the stocking and knitting toward the toe of the same; but it willbeunderstood that such a stocking could be knit beginning at the toe, the latter being only a re-' versal of the former operation.

Vlfhat I cl aim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described machine-knit seam- I open or lace work following such hem, sub-' stantially as described.

4:. The herein-described machine-knit seamless stocking having solid plain knitting and open or lace work alternating longitudinally of the stocking and having solid plain knitting for forming the joining at the toe of the stocking substantially as described.-

5. The herein-described machine-knit stocking having a plain-knitted portion at the to of the stocking, and having an o en-wor portion in which there are drop e and a Lplain-knitted portion etween the droppe stitches and the toe of the stocking, substantially as described.

6; A machine-knit seamless stocking haV- ing lacework on the back and front of the stocking and having thalaework extending down upon the top of the foot of the stocking and having a plain-knitted portion preceding the lacework and a plain-knitted portion fol lowing said lacework, substantially as described.

7. A machine-knit seamlessstocking having lacework on the back and on the front of the leg of the stocking, and having aplainknit portion at the top of the stocking above the lacework, substantially asdescribed. 8.' A machine-knit seamless stocking having lacework on the back as well as on the .front of the stocking, a plain-knitted portion stitches,

preceding the laeework, and a plain-lniitted heel, bottom of the foot and toe, substan tially as described.

9. A machine-knit seamless stocking having open-work on the back and on the front of the stocking, a plain-knitted portion preceding the lacework, a plain-knitted heel, bottom of foot and toe, and a plain-knitted portion between the lacework and the toe of the stocking, substantially as described.

10. A machine-knit seamless stocking having open or lace Work upon the topoi the foot of the stocking and having plain solid knitting between said lacework and the top of the stocking, substantially as described.

1 1. A machine-knit seamless stocking having open or lace work on the top of the footer the'stoeking and solid plain knitting above the lacework, substantially as descril'sed.

12. A machine-knit seamless stocking having open or lace work on the top of the footof the stocking and solid plain knitting precedin said open or lace Work and solid plain. knitting following said lacework, substantially as described.

13. A machinedmit seamless stocking hav- 1 ing open or lace Work on the top of the foot of the stocking and having solid plain knitting between said open or lace work and the. top of the stocking and solid plain knitting between the open or lace work and the toe of the stocking; substantially as described.

14. A machine-knit seamless stocking, knit in one continuous operation, having open or lace work on the back and on the front or? the or lace work and plain knitting between said open or lace work and the toe of the stocking, substantially as d cscribed.

16. A machine-knit seamless stocking having a toe, foot and le 'portion formed of a continuous thread or t. reads knitin one op eration, and having the entire leg ortion formed of sections of open or lace wor alternated with plain loops etween the open or lace Work and the top of the stocking and between the 0 en or lace work and the toe of the stocking, t e heel bottom of the foot and toe portions being also composed of plain loops, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- GEORGE" H. GILBER'l. 1 Witnesses:

' J. W. KrLBoUnN,

CHARLES H. WEISS.

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